DNA(deoxyribonuc

leic acid)Allyson ListerMarch 2017

How many???Around 2.5 billion cells in one of your hands, but they are tiny. If every cell in your hand was the size of a grain of sand, your hand would be the size of a bus!

Each cell has its own job. But how does each cell know what job to do?

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What is DNA for?DNA acts like a recipe, telling our bodies how to develop and how to work. There are about 1.5 gigabytes of information in each cell[2].

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What does it look like?http://www.wehi.edu.au/wehi-tv/molecular-visualisations-dna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD1TjeszTHQ

There must be 1000s of recipes!!Each piece of information / recipe is carried on a different section of the DNA. These sections are called genes[1].

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Building sweetie DNA: 6 Billion* pairs??!!

[2,4]* Diploid number

Your Recipe is…?

A == TC == G

Jellyfish GlowYou can get fluorescent yellows and greens from jellyfish.

You can get fluorescent reds from some corals.

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What Bacteria Painting Would you Do?

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Citations[1] http://kids.britannica.com/elementary/article-390730/DNA Accessed 2 March 2017.

[2] https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/23 Accessed 2 March 2017.

[3] https://www.pets4homes.co.uk/pet-advice/is-it-true-bengal-cats-shed-less-than-other-cats.html Accessed 2 March 2017.

[4] http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/cellular-microscopic/cell6.htm Accessed 2 March 2017.

[5] http://www.cell.com/pictureshow/skin Accessed 2 March 2017.

[6] http://www.cell.com/pictureshow/viruses Accessed 2 March 2017.

[7] http://tsienlab.ucsd.edu/HTML/Images/IMAGE%20-%20PLATE%20-%20Beach.jpg Accessed 2 March 2017.

[8] By Brocken Inaglory - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2141765 Accessed 2 March 2017.